Anybody seen the Mayak satellite yet?
Anybody seen the Mayak satellite yet?
Benjamin Russell
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Justin Howard
I'm a little busy making IQ threads at the moment.
Why?
Thomas Rogers
Just seeing if it's reflector deployed properly
Michael Wilson
when do the reflectors deploy?
Hudson Jackson
That's the live tracking for the orbit.
Brody Edwards
It won't be seen by a naked eye. The reflector is way too small. They got their math completely wrong
Easton Long
Source?
David White
Tried seeing it the other night, nothing.
Their reflector is fucking huge and designed to actually reflect light. It should be bigger than the antennas on iridium sats.
Parker Diaz
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They fucked up their basic math. (user named 4110 below is the author)
It's smaller than old Iridiums and is flying too high. Okay you probably can barely see it with a naked eye if you know where to look and how to observe it, but it won't be "as bright as the moon" as they advertised, or some crap like that. Also, they have no telemetry, no control system, no anything - just a simlple passive self-deploying reflector target.
People told them many times that it will be no different than most satellites, including many astronomers, but they dismissed everything and continued to pitch their -10 mag bullshit.
astronomy.ru
even amateur and professional astronomers have difficulties to observe it with a naked eye, it's not even clear if it's deployed.
It's just another hipster crowdsourced half-scam with no connection to reality, nothing to see here.
Anthony Morris
Here's how they pitched it.